Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-30 Thread Robert Kaiser
Bill Davidsen schrieb: Robert Kaiser wrote: Bill Davidsen schrieb: From my testing of 2.1 I would say that a clear spec of how to write conforming extensions, possibly with some trivial example, is desirable. Feel free to write one up, we are an open community. We are trying to write up and

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Kaiser wrote: Bill Davidsen schrieb: Robert, I agree with the should never break part, but in practice 2.0.7 had major issue for some people and worked poorly or not at all. I didn't have any issue with add-ons, and that is the topic here. The other one was unfortunate and most of

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Kaiser wrote: MintyJewel schrieb: Can you please explain ( to confused little me ) why there are so many massive overhauls? The updates that get applied automatically are only security and stability fixes, not massive overhauls. Those should never break anything, and any add-ons from

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-25 Thread Robert Kaiser
Bill Davidsen schrieb: Robert, I agree with the should never break part, but in practice 2.0.7 had major issue for some people and worked poorly or not at all. I didn't have any issue with add-ons, and that is the topic here. The other one was unfortunate and most of those were an older

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-25 Thread W3BNR
On 9/25/2010 11:25 AM Robert Kaiser wrote: Bill Davidsen schrieb: Robert, I agree with the should never break part, but in practice 2.0.7 had major issue for some people and worked poorly or not at all. I didn't have any issue with add-ons, and that is the topic here. The other one was

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-25 Thread Philip Chee
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:55:41 -0400, W3BNR wrote: On 9/25/2010 11:25 AM Robert Kaiser wrote: Bill Davidsen schrieb: Robert, I agree with the should never break part, but in practice 2.0.7 had major issue for some people and worked poorly or not at all. I didn't have any issue with add-ons,

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Kaiser
MintyJewel schrieb: Can you please explain ( to confused little me ) why there are so many massive overhauls? The updates that get applied automatically are only security and stability fixes, not massive overhauls. Those should never break anything, and any add-ons from the official

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-22 Thread Phillip Jones
Robert Kaiser wrote: MintyJewel schrieb: Can you please explain ( to confused little me ) why there are so many massive overhauls? The updates that get applied automatically are only security and stability fixes, not massive overhauls. Those should never break anything, and any add-ons from

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Kaiser
Phillip Jones schrieb: I've seen twice recently where SeaMonkey installed totally new application not just patched current install. both on 2.0.5 and 2.0.7 Both those have just stability and security changes over their predecessors. The way it's installed doesn't way anything to do with

Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-21 Thread MintyJewel
Dear Team SeaMonkey ... Can you please explain ( to confused little me ) why there are so many massive overhauls? Seems as though I've barely settled in nice and comfy with the latest SeaMonkey version, that I'm hit with an up- grade. Only it's never so simple. Add-On's no longer work, things

Re: Why so many up-grades?

2010-09-21 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/21/10 7:24 PM, MintyJewel wrote: Dear Team SeaMonkey ... Can you please explain ( to confused little me ) why there are so many massive overhauls? Seems as though I've barely settled in nice and comfy with the latest SeaMonkey version, that I'm hit with an up- grade. Only it's never